WebMaker

WebMaker is a KDE program (but also works without the KDE desktop). Nevertheless, the KDE basic packages are required.
At the author's homepage you can get the source code or precompiled rpm files. SuSE users will find a special RPM version at http://www.suse.de/de/support/download/LinuKS/.

The program:
As is typical for all KDE programs, WebMaker has a comfortable front end. Without any problems you can edit more than one HTML file and quickly change between these files.
It has very good text highlighting of the HTML tags. This helps to navigate fast and secure through the file.
The most important HTML tags can be accessed at the toolbar. If you did not use the toolbar because you write the HTML tags much faster by hand, you are be able to switch off the tool bar. The tags which are not so common can be accessed using the Tag Chooser
Webmaker is a very good program.

August

August is an HTML editor written in TCL/TK and it has a big problem for us: it does not support syntax highlighting.

But his program offers a well-organized button bar where you can reach the common HTML tags quickly. Many more tags are available using the menu. In addition the program offers a support for templates. You create a basic structure (called template) for all your web sites and just fill the text in the space. However, we recommend that you use a preprocessor (e.g. gtml) instead of templates.

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Another well designed HTML editor is Bluefish. This GTK program displays a big collection of buttons which are sorted in different categories and themes.

Too bad that this program does not support syntax highlighting either. Nevertheless, it offers a user defined menu where you can place and sort the tags as you want.

If you knew all the important HTML tags from memory and you did not need these menus and buttons you should use a normal text editor.
The use of (X)emacs is not well known in general but it is worth learning it. Xemacs supports syntax highlighting, too. 8)

GXedit is a GTK program running with gnome which also supports writing HTML files.
Working on many different files simultaneously is handled well.

Galway is completely written in the script language Guile GTK. This script language helps you to produce GTK programs very easily.
But the guile package would have to be installed if you used a more common distribution because it has not been well disseminated. The installation does not run smoothly overall.
If the installation work doesn't bother you, you could use galway.

Quanta+ is a well designed KDE program for writing HTML documents. The window is split in three sections. In addition to the existing file browser and text editor, Quanta+ offers a preview of the actual edited HTML file. Usually we have have bad experiences with this kind of program because the preview has not corresponded with the presentation in a real web browser.

But Quanta+ does not have this problem and the HTML presentation is very good. You are even able to click at the links in the preview and find broken links at once.
In addition, the program offers syntax highlighting and a program to find faults in the HTML text.

Screem is more than a "simple" HTML editor. The name stands for Site Creating and Editing Environment. This program offers a complete developing tool to design web sites. It is constructed for authors who have to administrate many pages and want that all sites look the same way. After editing the file, Screem takes care of uploading of the files to an HTTP server via FTP.
Also the source can be got from http://download.sourceforge.net/screem/screem-0.4.1.tar.gz

At the end, we mention the commercial program CoffeCup. It is ported to Linux from the M$ Win version with the same name. The program is distributed as shareware and offers many more configurations for the different HTML tags in contrast to the other HTML editors we review here.
At the homepage, you will find a demo version for testing the program.